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Every so often, web users with various sorts of artistic skills and different understandings of telecommunications will try to create maps of the Internet. Why, earlier this week The New York Times ran this piece about the shape of the Internet featuring two interesting maps by Peter Morance. Of course, being the comprehensive Internet cartographers [...]

A very interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times explains that our brains are often at their most active, creative and effective when trying to process bad instructions, misinformation, or trying to find patterns when no signs are present. The accompanying image (pictured) shows a blank road sign on a desert road, which got us [...]

Artist and designer Kentaro Nagai has crafted images of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals by re-arranging the shapes of countries and continents on the world map. The idea behind the campaign is to craft a stronger and more united global community that counts for more than just the sum of its parts.
In that spirit, check [...]

A few years back (we can’t say how many) we took an American Politics 101 class during our freshman year of college and learned all about the American tradition of Gerrymandering. Aside from the tactical partisan redistricting practice’s funny name, we didn’t think a whole lot of it, and the knowledge quickly sank into an [...]